skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of that code is the old code compiled for the new platform.
This is a very old fighter pilot tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_position_(air_combat)
This only shows the headline and the lead picture for me, not the main text.
I agree with what you're saying, but it can be immensely frustrating when you're rejected for a job when the interviewer themselves is actually wrong, which has happened a few times. I've been given technical questions in interviews, and I answer the questions correctly (I always double-check when I get home), and the interviewer pretty much tells me that I'm wrong.

For example, in an interview once I got the typical "design Twitter" whiteboarding question, and it's going fine, until the topic of databases and storage comes up.

I ask "do we want consistency or availability here?"

The interviewer says that he wants both. To which I say "umm, ok, but I thought you said you wanted this to be distributed?", and he said yeah that's what he wants.

So I have to push back and say "well I mean, we all want that, but I'm pretty sure you can't have stuff be distributed or partitionable while also having availability and consistent."

We go back and forth for about another minute (or course eating away at my interview time), until I eventually pull out my phone and pull up the Wikipedia article for CAP theorem, to which the interviewer said that this is "different" somehow. I said "it's actually not different, but lets just use assume that there exists some kind of database X that gives us all these perks".

Now, in fairness to this particular company, they actually did move forward and gave me a (crappy) offer, so credit there, but I've had other interviews that went similarly and I'm declined. I've never done it, but I've sort of wanted to go onto LinkedIn and try and explain that their interview questions either need to change or they need to become better informed about the concepts that they're interviewing for. Not to change anything, not to convince anyone to suddenly give me an offer, but simply to prove my point.
Even if they implemented the feature with opt-in permissions, why would you trust this company to honor your negative response to the opt-in?
I think it's sufficiently accurate, why don't you think it is? I don't think the vector vs low-res aspect is particularly material to understanding the key fact that "even we ourselves can't see?"
While true, it seems like every individual quote page also includes:

<meta content='noindex' name='robots'>

Worth noting as well, their sitemaps all 404.
Yea not knowing why cameras are everywhere is naive.

And the fix to “winning” Chinese citizens over is to dismantle the CCP, by practicing asymmetric warfare - like economically weakening them - until citizens are ready for change.
Tangentially, the solution would not be higher 'income tax', but higher capital gains tax.

The confusion largely is that 'income tax' is really 'wage tax'. Income common wealthy people with lots of capital is return on their capital investment, which is exluded from that tax.
To use the phrase “Public intellectual ecosystem” and then to go on mentioning Lex Friedman, Joe Roegan says more about the author than China I think. I had a good laugh at that phrase as well as his examples.

It’s interesting to see China making giant progress in EV, renewables, bullet trains and so on while SV podcasters get high on their “intellectual ecosystem”.
And all the cubans in the US hate castro. Its not a representative sample. Also its CCP not CPC
I'm not sure it was so much of an ethical statement as you should be switching jobs every couple years to maximize your paycheck.

Of course, now, it's more about being happy to have a well-paying job as opposed to working a "full-time" job with two or three paychecks from different companies.
How widespread is LLM cheating during video interviews these days? Honest question.. How do people even do it? Let an LLM app listen in and suggest avenues of discussion and lists a bunch of facts on the side to spice things up?

Even if that's the case, isn't it just a matter of conversing in a way that the LLM can't easily follow?
You need not. It's evident to any reader that some models can take more into account without overloading, including the "access" variable you introduced ex post facto.

What I suggested is an instance of Kant's categorical imperative: "Act by the maxim whereby you can at once will that it should become a universal law." The maxim in this case being "optimize for your own benefit."
> That career advice is sarcastic - probably

If you are into retrocomputing, they’ll pay you to have fun doing archeology and necromancy. It’s heaven.
I think it's just some lingering propaganda of those who oppose adoption of Linux. Things are pretty usable and are there for those who want to use them. Not necessarily Dell though - haven't used them in a long time.
Russia shot down jet, attempted cover-up, Azerbaijan president charges
Awesome project. Any plans to include insulation instructions? In Toronto, and much of Canada, plywood alone couldnt provide shelter from the cold in the winter months
Framework seems pretty Linux friendly. System76 is dedicated to Linux hardware.
That's not out of the question. The Nissan GT-R in Japan is geofenced to only allow excessive speeding on racetracks.
I prefer USB ports on the monitor, which can have a higher speed without creating problems.

Most keyboards are designed for low speed USB links, not even for USB 2.0. Having to replace the cheap cable normally used by keyboards with an expensive cable, at the great cable length that is desirable for a keyboard, would raise the cost with negligible benefits.

Many PCs have additional USB 2.0 ports for slow peripherals, i.e. mainly for keyboards, mice or graphic tablets. A keyboard with a USB hub suitable for a USB memory would need to use a USB 3 port on the PC, occupying a port that might have been better used for other peripherals, while leaving unused the slow USB ports.
This is almost what we have in UNIX. The resource sharing and multithreading happens automatically if you start shelling out to programs to do work, or have a simple multi process architecture like NGINX, Postgres, and web app
Last week there was a "Switched Back to Windows After over 10 Years on Linux" thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42496032 ), and this story shows one of the reasons I prefer Linux to Windows.
Yes, but if it happens at least there is no greedy intent and it will be corrected by the community.
I thought you could buy Dells with Linux on them instead of Windows. Software is better, hardware is the same.

I think its just a battery life issue, and as far as I know its not much worse than windows.

If you are going to carry the power brick around with you anyway, might as well just plug in it a little earlier.
Not ideal I guess but better than no reckoning at all.
Boris never changed his mind, he knew Brexit was bad but used it for political gain.
So he would be doing exactly what the Chinese government wants. As a US president the guy would shoot himself in the foot.
I was talking about RIO
Well, I was speaking in general, not about phones.
I'm thinking either Framework or Lenovo. It might be interesting to see what good arm laptops will be available next year when I might finally decide to upgrade my current machine.
> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made. A guitar, a wood chisel, a chef's knife, a built racing engine, a firearm, a suit, a pair of shoes. Given that this is so well-known, and so universally understood, it's peculiar at best that this is not seen by most people when it comes to medicine. It is however also true.

I have seen this sentiment expressed, but I have yet to see any real evidence for it. A factory can ensure precision and consistency at a level that those hand crafting things never could. For all of the things listed, I would rather have factory made versions since I know they are likely made precisely to a specification and deviations from that specification likely make things worse, rather than better.

If that claim about hand made items being better were true, there would be a market for hand made CPUs, yet there is none, since hand made objects can not reach that level of precision. That is a major reason why society transitioned to factories for production in the first place.
Hmm, I only listened briefly but it sounds a normal rate to me. Perhaps the high end of norma; podcasters do want to convey enthusiasm and that often translates to speed.

As an aside, some people whose first language is not English speak English too fast, because their first language uses fewer phonemes and hence uses a higher syllable rate to reach the same information rate. I wondered if that might be the case here, but this sounds like a native speaker.
> These endless rows of skyscrapers, put up in the construction frenzy of the last few decades, are ugly

And dangerous, and won't last more than a few decades. Just watch some of the tofu dreg videos https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1eyUAZCb3sA

> There were very few foreigners. In Beijing I might have seen half a dozen cumulatively across entire seas of people

Most foreigners from US and Europe have left after the COVID lockdown - they've seen with their own eyes the true nature of authoritarian/dictatorship regime. Also, the closer relationship of Russia and China has many unable to stomach supporting a regime that attacks Ukraine, another democracy. The foreigners are now from Africa, Middle East, or Belt and Road countries.

> Outside of Shanghai, almost nobody spoke English.

This is why China will be irrelevant in a few decades, as it recedes into its own shell. When most export manufacturing will have moved to Southeast Asia, when domestic goods is preferred over foreign goods, when export dwindles due to sanctions and tariffs, when it gets harder to harder for average citizens to obtain passports. China will be closed off just like the 18th century, just how Xi Jing Ping wants it.

> many young people expressed feeling stressed or overwhelmed

Imagine that you just graduated, and no one is hiring in your fields. And you can only drive didi or meituan, but the pay is decreasing fast, and there are 20+ idle drivers at lunchtime every day, and you are only making $300/month. And next year, there will be another 12+ million graduates - the size of the entire population of Sweden. You are trying to look for a job in another country, but travelling outside the country is discouraged and passports are hard to get.

> The biggest surprise from talking to Chinese VCs people at AI labs was how capital constrained they felt

China’s startup scene is dead as investors pull out—’Today, we are like lepers’
https://fortune.com/2024/09/14/china-economy-startup-creatio...
This is likely a misinterpretation.

It's not "pretending" or seeking "moral leniency" for individuals to use their agency to identify the potential for meaningful work, even within constraints. Recognizing the impact of work, and making conscious choices about how one contributes is more the point.

There exist systemic exploitations of labor certainly.

On being the change ...

It is not heroic idol-seeking to share one's experience, nor to ask others to consider the values dimensions of their work.

Even on a small scale, change can be made. It's worthy to highlight it, and moreover celebrating good can motivate values based thinking in others.
AFFiNE is a next-gen knowledge base
> Don’t buy shitty products, or soon there will be no non-shitty products

The only way to fight enshitification is government regulation.

Otherwise, for the 0.1% of market population able to make an informed choice, there remains a 99.9% of consumers ready to buy the cheapest thing and then shrug up or whine.
Joe Rogan is not a fucking intellectual. Regardless of what you think of him he’s the first to tell you he’s just some idiot. Just because he has a lot of listeners and is willing to host just about anyone talking about anything doesn’t make him an intellectual. Talk about an unhinged take.
Potential impact on the GPS L1 by mobile devices operating on satellite L-band
Covid was an exceptional scenario and also a convenient test period for that control. As for moving military forces into cities - it would be very viable. Look at any situation on leaked social media where police or state actors are shutting down protests - for example when masses of Chinese citizens demonstrate against their employer or real estate scammers or banks or whatever. The authorities have an easy ability to bring lots of personnel and gear to any situation quickly. Then there’s the dystopian stuff that ranges from social credit scores preventing use of public transit to police drones patrolling the air between apartment buildings telling citizens to stay home. The Chinese society is under mass control all the time from all sides.
I wonder: do mail servers determine the received timestamp based on when the connection was opened or when the last character was received? I guess OP could send them an unrelated question using this technique, and check in the reply what timestamp they have.
Dell were those who put drm on the power supply. I doubt that I'll buy from them ever again.
When all the immigrants from some place are there because they are running from the same thing, yes, that's very representative.
Lol, no.

You could try instead of making excuses, and acting like it's other people's fault: incorrect concept of personal responsibility.

You think I'm defensive? Defensive? me? Here? Dude, I am so assured about this stuff. I have zero reason to be defensive here at all. I am not. You are misreading it and projecting.

But I will bat back your mislabeling and confused entitlement. You’re not entitled to my viewing, but I don’t need to view your intentions, I knew them before I even opened the page to read your comment. They’re irrelevant to me, tho. Totally irrelevant, even tho they’re not good, no matter how you disguise them. Here, a mirror -

So…Defensively? Assumes so hard? I totally misunderstand? Hahaha, your fantasy of import and vanity, your talk of you, right? Twistedly projecting to make your stuff about others is classic toxic behavior. You need see others like that? I get if you need that, but that ain’t how reality is.

You do not understand, do you? Nobody is chasing you. Nobody needs your approval or judgement. Nobody needs to prove to you. This is just your chance to prove to yourself, that’s all. But instead of trying a session, maybe doing that, and sharing how it was, you … made stuff up, tried to make it about other people, and invoked maths, lies and hiding.
When you coulda just…tried a session. Afraid?

And that unsatisfied entitlement which leads to provocation for attention, being also a mark of fear blurring intimacy, just another way to hide.

Lol - I think you’re dismissive? Why would I not just then dismiss you back? Haha! No, you’re fixated. But on the wrong thing. You don’t have serious ideas about this topic, just lazy ones. Your commentary is a lot of lonely, boorish mental gymnastics to avoid the one thing this is all about. You trying. I guess you’re not interested in that.
In addition to the reasons you listed, context switches have also been significantly slowed down by Meltdown/Spectre speculative execution vulnerability mitigations.
click the download button it will download the full pdf
You get long ugly URLs. The system in work on often has 4-5 of these IDs in the URL, making working with them -- like copying and pasting them, or even extracting the particular id you care about from the path -- cumbersome.
It's literally THE unsafe part of the code. It's the only part of code that can invoke UB.

fn do_something() {
unsafe { ... }
}

// Somewhere in the program
do_something();

Doesn't matter where "do_something" is used and how much. The only possibly problematic part of this code is the unsafe block. You only audit it.
I'm not sure what you mean. In the US, anyone can accuse anything of being a populist slogan, and there's generally no penalties for repeating or adhering to a slogan someone else feels is populist. I've never faced even mild consequences for my vocal belief that the US should stop fighting regime change wars.
Thanks for taking time to review this extension.

Yes, we plan to continue development and will publish the extension in other stores as well (including FireFox and Edge).

Do you have any suggestions for features that you would like us to prioritize?
This is what strikes me about the peter todd phenomenon -- that there are hidden glitch tokens within the LLM that seem to conjure some representation of pure hell, and some representation of pure good.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petert...
> I asked him what the hardest part of ramping up production is - apparently constructing factories is just not an issue - tons of construction firms can make you a new facility quite reliably (along with the adjacent dorm room building for workers).

He never finishes this thought but moves on to a new topic. I want to know what he said in reply!
It tends to make people who loathe the unhoused upset, so I think it’s worth doing for that reason alone.

And in any case, this is just yelling into the void. Language usage will not change just because you want it to.
No, they work in zsh, with one extremely small change: The referenced variable needs to exist.

Try this (tested with zsh 5.9 on archlinux):

foo='PWD[$(echo hahaha >&2)0]+42'
[[ "$foo" -eq 5 ]]

In bash, this would also print "hahaha" with "a" (or any other possible variable name) instead of "PWD", that's why many think it doesn't work at all in zsh.

I'm pretty sure zsh has an optimization where it skips the indexing if the variable doesn't exist, which happens to sometimes stop this. But since you can just reference variables like PWD, that you know exist, it's not really a security improvement.
> The duty to align your professional life ethically scales with your ability to do so.

Humans respond to incentives. We seek rewards that may be monetary, social, or intellectual: we optimize our behavior for them all the same. Trying to improve the world by scolding people for acting according to their incentives will not work. It's not a serious position. "If everyone would just..." --- no, everyone is not going to just, and if they were, they'd have already done it. Your exhortation will make no difference.

If you want to change the world, change the incentive structure. Don't expect people to act against their personal interests because you say so. At best, they'll ignore you. At worst, they'll maliciously comply and cause even more harm.
Great docs and website!
Magnus Carlsen disqualified for wearing jeans at tournament in New York [video]
"I bemoaned that humanity seems to be serving technology rather than the other way around. I argued that tech corporations have become too powerful and their power must be curtailed."

That's a generic problem with corporatism and monopoly, not "tech".

It shows up in "tech" because "tech" scales so well and has such strong network effects. But the US's tolerance of monopoly is the real cause. There need to be about four major players before markets push prices down. The US has three big banks, two big drugstore chains, etc.

Tough antitrust enforcement would help. Google should be broken up into Search, Browsers, Mobile Devices, Ads, and Services, and the units prohibited from contracting with each other.

Tough labor law enforcement would help. No more "gig worker" jobs that are exempt from labor law.
No more "wage shaving". No more unpaid overtime. Prorate medical insurance payments based on hours, so companies that won't pay people for more than 30 hours a week pay their fraction of medical insurance.
A minimum wage high enough that people making it don't need food stamps.
It's easy to recruit a hitman, but hard to recruit a competent hitman. (See: the subcontracting hitmen in 2019.) And killing people is, in general, much easier than writing software.
Why is this guy so popular of late? Is it because he manages to book interesting podcast guests? He doesn't seem to have any particularly interesting or impressive original thoughts on display...
This is pretty facepalm, has the author actually used any of these extended epoll APIs? inotify - deprecated. aio - complete footgun in linux. Whatever point is trying to be made here is lost in reality, I fail to see how having a bunch of additional function calls is superior to event filters and there is no coherent argument laid out.. how is kqueue not composable if it too has added event types (i.e. Mach ports they mention)? You're going to have to modify the kernel in either case.
There's a huge difference between training and running models.

The multimillion (or billion) dollar collections of hardware assemble the datasets that we (people who run LLMs locally) run. The non-open datasets that we-host-LLMs-for-money companies do the same, and their data isn't all that much fancier. Open LLMs are catching up to closed ones, and the competition means everyone wins except for the victims of Nvidia's price gouging.

This is a bit like confusing the resources that go in to making a game with the resources needed to run and play that game. They're worlds different.
The complaint here seems a little misguided.

The AHCI / RAID switch the author is describing is only relevant to drive controllers which support SATA disks - AHCI is the protocol that's used to interact with a SATA controller. This switch has no effect on NVMe drives, and never has; the fact that the BIOS control for it even mentioned NVMe is odd.

The "RST storage driver" (i.e. Intel Rapid Storage Technology) is only required for systems which support SATA RAID using an Intel integrated RAID controller. It is not required to use NVMe devices. I wouldn't expect Dell to provide this driver for systems which don't use SATA disks, since it wouldn't do anything.

It certainly wouldn't surprise me if there were some weird trick required to perform a clean install of Windows on these machines. But I don't think the author has identified it correctly, and I find their theory that this is a deliberate effort to "control the user experience" unconvincing.
This doesn't seem at all to be what the GP was refering to in the part I quoted. How is it seen as a personal failure on their part?
They're part of the "intellectual landscape" in the sense that they act as a gateway for getting people interested in deeper topics, in a culture that has largely been anti-intellectual.

For as long as Hollywood shaped the cultural narrative, being smart was considered downright shameful; nerd was a synonym for loser, geeks were always social misfits. That shifted at some point in the last 10-20 years, in part due to increased immigration from non-anti-intellectual cultures but also because of the popularity of such podcasters and some YouTubers, especially fitness YouTubers.

I'd definitely credit these people as part of the "intellectual landscape" because they showed America that you could remain engaged for hours on something that isn't vapid bullshit, in a way that NPR perhaps couldn't.
Most western cities were designed with such things in mind. Look at Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Why do you think all those armories were built in US industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century? The odd thing is he makes it sound like China designs its cities with concerns not seen in the West.
> The entire unix operating system is designed to abstract away async problems and turn them sync so you can write sane code (if, else, for).

That only works for workloads that can be independently parallelized. For stuff that cannot be - which is the majority of consumer workload - you're in for a world of pain with locking and whatnot other issues.
Some people who preach an ascetic and parsimonious way of life and judge the choices of others probably also think they are making the world a better place, one all-work-and-no-play comment at a time ;)